News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced an indictment charging JAYSEN LANE HEYER, 38, with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On April 13, 2017, HEYER made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Duluth, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Following a five-day jury trial, a jury convicted a Miami-Dade resident of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, promethazine with codeine, and alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax, maintaining a premises for the purpose of distributing marijuana and promethazine with codeine, possession with the intent to distribute alprazolam, and two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Who: Bureau of Reclamation. What: Release of Annual Operating Plan for the Rio Grande Project. When: Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at 10 a.m. Where: Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Richard Cooper Boat Safety Training Center, Hwy 195 (Just Southeast of main Elephant Butte Lake State Park entrance). Why: To learn...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sheldon Harris, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 114 months in prison for violating the Hobbs Act by robbing two Albuquerque-area fast food restaurants and brandishing a firearm during the robberies. Harris will be on supervised release for two years following his prison sentence. Harris was also ordered to pay restitution to the fast food restaurants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that the U.S. Department of Justice and the Territory of Guam today jointly filed a motion to dismiss in the U.S. District Court, to terminate a 1991 Settlement Agreement for the civil reform of conditions in Guam’s jail and prison facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Travis Lemart Hayes (21, Clearwater) has pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - The final two of nine defendants in a child sex-trafficking conspiracy were sentenced Monday, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Data Comm , the NextGen technology that enhances safety and reduces delays by improving the way air traffic controllers and pilots talk to each other, is now live at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty on April 7, 2017, in federal court in Sioux City.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: APRIL 11, 2017 - Manufacturing establishments in the South and Midwest utilize more structured management practices than their counterparts in the Northeast and West, according to new results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Management and Organizational Practices Survey.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: How do jumbo jet designers develop resilient materials for modern airframes, while still bringing in their projects on time and on budget? Before they prototype a new material, they depend heavily on computer simulations to indicate how it will perform-and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are making those simulations more effective.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation in coordination with the National Park Service (NPS), the City of Bullhead City, Mohave County, and Clark County, is seeking public comment on a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Arizona Heritage Trail System within Lake Mead National Recreation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Buckhannon, West Virginia man was convicted today of a methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Hingham man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with defrauding neighbors and other acquaintances by agreeing to invest their money which he then stole for his own use or to pay off earlier investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury today convicted a Calera man of possessing a firearm after previously being convicted of a felony, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Hyche.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: Watercolor painter Larry Hughes will serve as Mesa Verde National Park’s Artist in Residence from May 1 through May 13, 2017. Larry will offer two free programs during his residency. Local residents and visitors are welcomed to join Larry for a nature walk and watercolor workshop at Parque de Vida in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: FBI Increases Reward and Seeks Information in Janesville Weapons Theft and Arson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man admitted today that he conspired to defraud 76 victims of more than $4 million and evaded paying more than $273,000 in taxes, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Grant Harris, age 38, formerly of Albrightsville, was sentenced on April 10, 2017, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 16 ½ years in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2017
News Release: NYPD Refused to Hire HIV Positive Applicant for the Position of Police Communications Technician.
